coronavirus pandemic.From long hours at work, to a constant and increased risk of COVID-19 infection, to difficult video calls with families of dying patients, to isolation from their loved ones, it has been a year unlike any other for health-care workers around the world. ‘It was a shocker’ — Front-line health-care worker’s family hit by COVID-19 In Canada, more than 65,000 health-care workers have been infected with COVID-19 and 24 have died from the disease, as of Jan.